I should tag a lot of my posts with “I’m an idiot, so you don’t need to be one, too”. We’ve been having printing problems at Sympraxis Global Headquarters (aka “My House”) on and off for most of this year. Our devices have beenn seeing the printer as offline, even when it wasn’t. I’d racked…
Today marks ten years to the day since I had my last drink of alcohol. That’s 3,654 days without a drink, or 87,696 hours, or 5,261,760 minutes. If you can’t live without a drink, you know how big those numbers are. I quit cold turkey on September 30, 2007. Most people can’t do that and…
Most of us are “meat and potatoes” people when it comes to the technology we use. We like what we know and we know what we like. (Yes, there are vegan “seitan and potatoes” people, vegetarian “sprouts and potatoes” people, pescatarian “cod and potatoes” people, etc. I’m not trying to leave anyone out.) Every once in…
Last week the SharePoint community lost a valuable member and I lost a friend. Dave Coleman, who had been in and out of hospital since last year about this time, finally succumbed to cancer. Dave was a SharePoint Server MVP, active community member, and educator. He was also a husband, a father, a grandfather, and…
I had another Minecraft-related malware infection today (not my first). One of my hopes with Microsoft buying Minecraft is that they will clean up the installation and run process overall, including creating a good, clean catalog of mods. This time we ended up with the Trovi “search experience”. I figured out that it was there…